Short People Are Better At Soccer/Football.

[Gohenk]

Paul Scholes( 1.68, Paul Aaron Scholes is a former English footballer who played as a midfielder. He is considered by many to be one of the best midfielders of all time, he only played for a single club, Manchester United, becoming the tenth highest scorer with 155 goals. He is currently an assistant coach at Manchester United).

[lockdownboredom]

Name one short goalkeeper.

Checkmate buddy.

[coolfrenchguy]

If you knew something about football, you would know that the soccer tournament at olympic games is meaningless because it is U23. Average height of Manchester city squad is 180 cm. Inter Milan (the team they defeated in the grandfinal) is 182 cm on average. Man city won champions league last year (highest level of football there is). What does that tell you?

genuine strikers are tall
Zlatan Ibrahimović 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)


Thierry Henry 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)



David Beckham 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)

[Gohenk]

genuine strikers are tall
Zlatan Ibrahimović 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)


Thierry Henry 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)



David Beckham 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)

Messi is the best striker ever and he is 1.69.
Anyways the best tall players were still shorter than 1.90, even good goalkeepers like Casillas( 1.82) and Oliver Kahn( 1.88) were still shorter than 1.90.

[Gohenk]

Bruno Xavier( 1.79, not short but not 6ft anyways.
Won the 2024 Beach soccer World Cup for Brazil. Brazil is now the greatest Champion of beach soccer World Cups with 6 titles!).

[Gohenk]

The importance of a low center of Gravity on dribbling skills and why Messi is so good at it: